Attended La Serna High School in Whittier, California (Class of 1968).
The middle of three daughters in her family.
Best-known for her roles on The Dean Martin Show (1965) in the early 1970s (as part of The Golddiggers and The Ding-a-Ling Sisters, under her stage name "Tara Leigh") and as Alex Quartermaine on General Hospital (1963) in the early 1980s (under her real name, Renee Anderson).
Trained vocalist (operatic soprano).
Born Renee Smith in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and raised in Whittier, California, having moved there at a young age.